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His Excellency the Governor has decided to make a personal inspection of the town of Bourke and its surroundings daring the present dangerous proximity of the floods, and left Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Wednesday.-The situation here, though still verging on the dangerous, is yet slightly more reassuring. The number of workers on the embankment has been considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE is passing through an experience which is sufficiently trying and alarming, though fortunately there are reasons for supposing that the calamitous visitation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.- The Rev. &. D. Buchanan, and Mr. A. B. H. Pettzeker have been delegated by the Flood Belief Committee to visit I Esk Valley and other country districts, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Matters relative to the floods have now assumed a more cheerful and assuring aspect, and thanks to the strenuous efforts of all, for every man, woman, and child in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Frank Reid Murphy, member of the Assembly, has promised L100 if further funds are required for the flood relief. Sir Charles Lilley, Chief Justice, has also…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--Continuous rain has fallen over the North Island for seven days past. Floods have occurred in some districts but no serious damage is reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Mr. Murphy, a member of the Assembly, has promised £100 if further funds are required for flood relief. Sir Charles Lilley has also promised a second donation if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Postmaster-General has received information by telegram from the postmaster a Brewarrina that the Sydney and Byrock mails arrived on Monday night, the mailman stating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BREWARRINA, Tuesday.--The river to-day is again rising slowly, averaging about 3in in 24 hours and a gradual rise is expected for some days. Great damage will be done to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bourke is safe for the present, though the river is still rising and the current increasing in strength The waters rose 4½in. since yesterday morning, an nearly an inch since 8 o'clock this morning. A larg…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--A strong southwest wind has been blowing since yesterday, with occasional showers and a heavy sea, causing the suspension of all shipping at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Thursday.-"Floods, floods, and rumors of floods" is still theory in Bourke, the metropolis of the west, and still the threatening watery invasion is being combated. The work…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following telegram was on Wednesday received by the Minister for Lands from Mr. T. W. Ward, chairman of the local Land Board.- "Flood embankments well in hand. Town is new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday.-Mr. Wragge's forecast for Southern Queensland is chiefly fine throughout. In Northern Queensland he anticipates that the weather will still be unsettled and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The work of fighting the water is proceeding with energy to-day. The river is still rising, and the banks are being further heightened and strengthened. There have been one or two leakages, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods are still the all-absorbing topic here. News from above Bourke is more assuring. The water is falling slowly at most stations, and is almost stationary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Postmaster-General has received information by telegram from Bourke that, so far, all is going well. The dam round the town has been very much strengthened. A hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BREWARRINA, Wednesday.--The river is still rising slowly. All business is suspended. The banks have removed their safes to high ground, under guard. It is expected that the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Jorgensen's lifeboat Storm King has left Cape Town for Melbourne…
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